fellows for two
Fellows For Two is a 10-week collaborative program that partners creatives across the world to develop art projects of all mediums and meet new people in a new and creative way.
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We are excited to present to you our first cohort’s gallery:
Fellows For Two: First Connections
to be with you in this way by Anja Balle & Natalie Sealover
falling by Mikaya Kim & Abel Reyes
A Love Letter by Emily Taing & Isabel Renich Holt
All The Rage by Kai Do & Giang Pham
we only bloom with time by Sarah Cassell & Marc Tejada
ATTACHMENTS by Carmen Truffat & Lindsey Silver
FINDING THE SPIRAL. by Gianpaolo Pabros & Aakanksha Kuchan
Our Planet, Our Future by Kayla Wong & Kainani Tacazon
Heart To Heart by Suzy Gandara & Raiyan Shaik
Tunog Ng Tahanan (Sounds of Home) by Brianna Ifland & Haley Puri
reflection by luna fela & finballin
Everything + Nothing by Molly McCloskey & Natalie Hong
Rhythm of Us by Dean Austin & Alexandra Gonzalez
In This Year Alone by Ellie James & Francene Olegario
On Motherhood by Cassie Joy & Katherine Han
my thoughts on you. by Rachel Yang & Christian Waite
Dear ____, by Emily Lerch & Jessica Vallan
Living For You by Joey Quian and Vivian Chan
to be with you in this way
By Anja Balle & Natalie Sealover
In this repetitive, moving-picture composition, we bring mixed media into a digital space combining sculptural structures with photographic and video elements. By staging the physical self alongside natural elements, we explore the give and pull of relationships within the subconscious as it connects to organic, cyclical realities we cannot control.
Anja Balle
Anja's image-making art practice explores the body and the domestic space- illustratively utilizing folk art motifs to adorn the body and photographically centering natural forms in arrangement and distortion.
Natalie Sealover
Natalie is a self-taught designer and creative. While her professional design work typically lives in the realm of clean, elevated minimalism, her personal work is very experimental and cinematic in nature.
A LOVE LETTER
By Emily Taing and Isabel Renich Holt
This project represents our current stages of life and our thoughts and feelings around dance, emotion, art, creative block, and memory. In our conversations surrounding the project, we explored themes of growth, stagnancy, confidence, creativity, and our personal journeys with how dance plays a part in our experiences.
Emily Taing
hi! i'm emily (she/her) and i'm an asian american creative <3 i’m a dancer based in SoCal who hopes to also explore different avenues of art like acting, photography, and film! i love the process of creating with others + being able to translate our feelings into art (:
Isabel Renich Holt
Isabel (she/her) is a choreographer and teacher currently based in Utah. Dance has been a part of her life since childhood and she works with children and teens to explore technique and individuality. Isabel is fascinated by human connection and how dance brings out creativity in every individual.
FALLING
By Mikaya Kim & Abel Reyes
This project follows a narrator from childhood to young adulthood through the lens of a relationship, told in a series of three songs—two of which are accompanied by videos—reflecting on the complexities of love and friendship when things start to fall in place or fall apart.
These pieces explore one potential situation in the aftermath of falling in love, where love bleeds into navigating obstacles and repeated attempts to keep a relationship afloat. This is a reflection on what happens when love and care aren't enough to mask the issues lying beneath them. We hope you enjoy!
Mikaya Kim
Hi, I’m Mikaya! I’m an amateur writer/photographer/artist from SoCal, currently based in Nashville, Tennessee. I love creating art that discusses the complexities of relationships and of living life among other people, usually covering themes such as mental health, love, friendship, loss, and loneliness through words and pictures!
Abel Reyes
Hi there, my name is Abel! I’m a writer and photographer from Long Beach, CA. I graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 2022 with a B.A. in journalism and comparative world literature. I love connecting with people through their art and discovering themes of hardship, honesty, and love.
ALL THE RAGE
By Kai Do & Giang Pham
ALL THE RAGE is an online exhibition centered around the exploration of female rage.
In light of the tropes surrounding the hysteria of women that have become increasingly popular throughout contemporary internet culture, the exhibit features a collection of letters, art, and media documenting peoples’ personal female (presenting) rage to highlight authentic experiences that are separated from the expectations placed upon us and our feelings.
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Giang Pham
Hiii! I'm Giang (pronounced like yang). I'm a Virgo sun, Leo moon, Aquarius rising. I'm currently in Texas, and I have a degree in design, so I'm currently working as an art director, but I love experimenting with other mediums and all things creative as well!!
Kai Do
Hi!! I’m Kai. I currently live in Los Angeles, but I hope to someday live in NYC! I'm a Cancer sun, Aries moon, and Gemini rising. I love experimenting with all kinds of media like film, photography, painting, and drawing, as well as writing poems, personal essays, and music!!
WE ONLY BLOOM WITH TIME.
By Sarah Cassell & Marc Tejada
A photo series that encapsulates the growing pains of change in areas of life that we have been familiar with all our lives. Friends, family, and ourself, three aspects of life that may be hardest to let go. Combining the arts of photography, creative direction, and the written word in order to understand change– for better or for worse. It’s through the various physical alterations in the image and print that we hope to explore the visceral feeling of growing up and changing. In this attempt, we saw ourselves grow with the piece of art that we set out to create and allowed ourselves to explore the different meanings of what it means to grow up. It’s in this process that we found that we only bloom with time.
Sarah Cassell
Double Virgo and Libra Venus. Most importantly an artist and lover in all ways. I'm excited to make my photographic debut with this reflection of nostalgia, moving on, and growing up. I’m truly looking forward to wherever life will lead me, and am truly grateful for this wonderful experience. Enjoy!
ATTACHMENTS
By Carmen Truffat & Lindsey Silver
dancing by Lindsey Silver
sex by Lindsey Silver
perceptions by Carmen Truffat
touch by Carmen Truffat
intimate by Carmen Truffat
embrace by Carmen Truffat
adventure by Lindsey Silver
family by Carmen Truffat
love by Lindsey Silver
Attachments is a series of collaborative collages where the process is as important as the final result. Each artist curated images based around facets of identity, then each artist used the other’s images to form the basis of a piece, pulling from their own collection when needed in order to create digital collages.
As the piece took shape themes of intimacy and relationships emerged, the final 9 pieces were selected from a total of 36 collages.
Carmen Truffat
Carmen is a queer Seattle-based designer who seeks to tell stories through different mediums. Their focus is currently centered around themes of queerness, identity, and distortion. Right now, Carmen is working in an art gallery, involved in student film and theatre productions, and looking to finish writing a play.
FINDING THE SPIRAL.
By Gianpaolo Pabros & Aakanksha Kuchan
We approach the spiral's symbolism to represent humanity; it displays itself in many organic forms that connect all of us to these universal experiences. We also understand how hard it is to feel connected to the world in a way where we feel validated and loved. Because of this obstacle, we wanted to create a visual/sonic art piece that our peers could listen to and view to help them journey toward self-discovery and self-love. This was a very eye-opening experience for both of us and experimented a lot in our own mediums to come up with the final product.
Aakanksha Kuchan
She is a singer, songwriter, and producer tapping into an experimental genre of music.
Gianpaolo Pabros
He is a freelance Bay Area photographer dipping his toes into the film industry. His main objective, as an Asian-American artist, is to connect the world's unspoken mental challenges to visual mediums in hopes of creating awareness and better understanding of what can challenge us.
OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE
By Kayla Wong & Kainani Tacazon
Our Planet, Our Future is an interactive website featuring various multimedia video collages that showcase the main themes found between perspectives/identities (multigenerational, cultural, and social) in response to climate change and the state of the environment around us. We specifically interviewed individuals whose special relationships with the environment display their passion to drive change and bring awareness towards climate change both personally and as a society. Kayla and Kainani hope that this project sheds light on the public issue of climate change from a new perspective and acknowledge that we all share the same planet and impact our future.
Kainani Tacazon
Kainani Tacazon is a college student from O’ahu, HI attending Chapman University with a major in Environmental Science and Policy. Outside of STEM, she practices her love for art from fine arts to photography and design. Tacazon utilizes art as a segway to communicate research and advocate for environmental justice.
Kayla Wong
Kayla Wong is an Oakland-raised, LA-based filmmaker and multi-hyphenate creative with a passion for telling stories that give a voice to the unheard. Wong presents audiences with the messy parts of life from a personal perspective. Wong studies Film & TV Production at the University of Southern California’s School for Cinematic Arts.
HEART TO HEART
By Suzy Gandara & Raiyan Shaik
Heart to Heart is a short film that includes personal stories about the realities of growing up, self identity and love. These stories are spoken with truth and vulnerability and showcase different perspectives of life.
Raiyan Shaik
Suzy Gandara
Suzy is a casual artist based in California that works with various paint mediums such as watercolor and acrylic. This is Suzy’s first film project has plans to create more short films in the future.
Tunog ng Tahanan (Sounds of Home)
By Brianna Ifland & Haley Puri
“Tunog ng Tabanan” (Sounds of Home) explores the Filipino-American identity in the audio form. With my, (Brianna) specialty in writing, and Haley’s in visual art, we wanted to find a medium outside of both of our comfort zones. We burned the content onto CDs to honor the analog form we grew up with/to give ourselves tangible evidence of our work, but we wanted to share this with all of you and provided digital access! Featuring interviews, poetry, prose, and music, we tried to capture the individual experiences of Pinoys around the country and see where our experiences overlap, contrast, and collide.
Haley Puri
Hi! Im Haley Puri and I’m a senior at the high school Utica Academy for International Studies. I love painting and music!
Brianna Ifland
Hey! I'm Brianna, a communications-creative writing freshman at the University of Arkansas. Growing up half-Filipino in a rural/predominately-white community, my work features multiculturalism, mother-daughter relationships, and identity. I use art as a vehicle to reconnect with myself/others, and I hope our project inspires you to do the same!
reflection
By luna fela & finballin
stemming from a few late night conversations consisting of getting to know each other, bonding over shared interests, and sharing what they want to convey with their art, the two decided on combining their strengths to create the collaborative project, titled “reflection”. “reflection” is animated visualizer created by finballin, accompanied by music created by taleofapollo. the two hoped to capture the feeling of reflection — looking inside oneself to better understand themselves and the world around them. through the complexity of reflection, there is still beauty in the chaos of it all.
finballin
a 20 year old cambodian american artist with a main intrest in animation, drawing much of his inspiration from fighting games and electronic music.
luna fela
taleofapollo, simply known as luna fela, is a queer nigerian multidisciplinary creative, residing in NYC. she spends most of her time indulging in her first love — music. creating, listening, analyzing, and hopefully soon, performing. from an early age, she has taken on classical training in several instruments, and has taught herself along the way. she dreams of studying in conservatories around the world, learning about music theory from several countries.
Everything + Nothing
By Molly McCloskey & Natalie Hong
Everything & Nothing includes two pieces that emote the shared experiences of Molly & Natalie – from childhood through the transitional time that is now. Both artists navigate a space of experiencing both everything and nothing. Passing the pieces back and forth, the artists feel through what it means to express yourself in the tension of the past and future. Using elements of nostalgia, the first piece candidly expresses the emotions of both artists through the duration of this project. The second piece diving more specifically into “coming into your own”, and feeling like yourself as a child, through clothing.
Molly McCloskey
Molly McCloskey is a 22 year old Artist from Columbus, Ohio. Molly’s identity propels itself towards self expression – taking form through Photography, Graphic design, and Fine Art mediums. Exploring the duality of being created and a creator; Molly’s work emotes the complexity of humanity through nostalgia and exaggerated portraiture.
Natalie Hong
RHYTHM OF US
By Dean Austin & Alexandra Gonzalez
"Rhythm of Us" takes a deep dive into a moment that most people have experienced or wish to experience at some point in their life. It conveys the moment between two souls when they are beyond connected and nothing else matters, even if only briefly. Lyrics and vocals by Alexandra. Lyric video by Dean. Production by Dean/Alexandra. :)
Dean Austin
Washington-based multidisciplinary artist Dean Austin takes his first stab at music producing with “Rhythm of Us.”
IN THIS YEAR ALONE
By Ellie James & Francene Olegario
In This Year Alone is a short film that follows the journey of a young woman as she navigates life after losing someone in her life. Through a nostalgic-memory film style, this film dives deep into answering the question: How do we learn to be alone?
Alongside a short film, a photo series–paired with personal letters–will be presented to represent others' own interpretations, experience, and memories of loss in attempts to answer the same question.
Ellie James
Ellie is a sophomore studying Marketing at LMU. She has always been passionate about visual arts–currently interested in digital art and design. As an Asian American adoptee, Ellie is inspired to create work that promotes diversity and vulnerability, and intertwine her new passion for photography and film in future projects.
Francene Olegario
Born and raised in LA, Francene Olegario is a creative passionate about storytelling, especially through film. She is currently in her first year at Otis College of Art and Design pursuing a BFA in animation.
On Motherhood
By Cassie Joy & Katherine Han
A short film inspired by the poem "On Motherhood" by Cassie Joy. A woman wanders through a CVS and takes a pregnancy test, while waiting for the results, she contemplates what motherhood means in todays society. This project aims to highlight the outer conflict women face living in a world built with many layers of violence against them. This project centers not just on motherhood, but also on girlhood, and on women as a whole.
Katherine Han
Katherine Han is a Los-Angeles based creative specializing in videography. She seeks to continue pushing the boundaries of multimedia storytelling. Katherine studies Communications and Cinematic Arts at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the School of Cinematic Arts, University Southern California.
Cassie Joy
cassie joy is a writer living in Seattle, WA, currently pursuing her degree in Songwriting and Women and Gender Studies. You can find her work on all streaming platforms under "cassie joy." She hopes you find glimpses of yourself in her work.
Our project “My thoughts on you” is a story based on the specific feelings harbored by situationships. A photo series telling the story of how sometimes things go the way you’d like, and other times they end in a way you’d least expect. We wanted to express and show the feeling of losing and gaining love through a common scenario in today’s generation.
my thoughts on you.
By Rachel Yang & Christian Waite
Rachel Yang
Current psychology & neuroscience student at GMU. Her passions consist of photographing life and the emotions that go with it. She loves music & wants to be able to express her love for the world through photography.
Christian Waite
Hi! My name is Christian and i’m a korean-american creative based on the west coast. I specialize in live music photography and candid videography. Super happy to have had the opportunity to work on this project :)
Dear ____,
By Emily Lerch & Jessica Vallan
Dear ____, is a short film exploring the ideas of nostalgia and longing for past memories. It follows May as she writes a letter, recalling her past friendship with Char. May reminiscences on the memories they shared together, reflected through the project's use of layered video and mixed media. Dear ____, encourages viewers to follow in May's footsteps and reach out to someone they haven't spoken to in a while. Sounds a little too scary? Maybe writing an anonymous note on the Dear ______, Message Board will be more your speed.
Jessica Vallan
Hi! I'm Jessica. I'm an artist from Oakland, CA, currently studying film and design at Northwestern University. Holding the advice to "fail big" close to my heart, I think that there's no artistic venture too grand; I'm always down to experiment with new techniques and mediums!
Emily Lerch
Emily Lerch is a New York City-based filmmaker creating short films that focus on themes of nostalgia and storytelling that evoke profound, sometimes messy, feelings. Through her work, Emily hopes to use her personal experiences as inspiration others can identify with!
living for you
By Vivian Chan & Joey Quian
The multi-media concept video "Living for You" is a powerful exploration of the relationship between our inner child and our adult selves. The video places the protagonist in a simulated world where they confront hardship, mirroring the cycle of growing up and the various stages of emotional growth that we all experience. Through the character's journey of overcoming failures, the video emphasizes the importance of coexisting with our inner child and seeking guidance from naivety, wonder, and curiosity. It suggests that as we grow older, we often let fear and past traumas guide our actions, and forget the purity of dreaming and curiosity of the moment. By tapping into our inner child, we can approach life with a sense of authenticity and curiosity that allows us to overcome our fears and traumas, and find joy in exploring the world around us. Overall, "Living for You" is a thought-provoking piece of media that inspires viewers to reflect on their own emotional growth and development.
Vivian Chan
Vivian Chan, NYC-based creative director and photographer, draws inspiration from her multidisciplinary background in movement, set design, and Asian-American culture. Her dream-like pieces playfully incorporate these influences to create imaginative works that evoke her inner child.
Joey Quian
Joey Quian is a video editor currently based in Long Beach, CA. Despite struggling in art school, she found her creativity through post-production, with the magic of sound and storytelling. Ever since, she has been dedicated to editing and exploring the realm of filmmaking.
